Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Today, Pebble has made available the their new firmware (3.8) for the Pebble Time.

The major new feature is the new app Health that can be synced with your smartphone Health Kit. The Pebble Time smart watch is becoming more and more interesting with each new update and this one is a major one.

You need to update your Pebble Time companion app on your smartphone. Then you will be able to upgrade your watch in just a few minutes.

At the same time, the original Pebble will also benefit a major revision as it is moving the the new Pebble Time interface. I just finished installing it on my OP. Even if the display is monochrome, the new interface is looking great, fast and smooth.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

I got my hand on the Pebble Time last week. I've been browsing the available apps in the Pebble Store, looking for the really useful one that would provide more functionalities to my watch.

My classic Pebble has been really great for the last year but I was tempted by the Pebble Time for two main reasons: the colours and the voice input feature.

With some many products available on the market, I do prefer the Pebble Time as it does offer a lot of functionalities for a low price compared to the others. At the price of 179$ CAD, other products can only offer limited features like activity tracking and basic notifications while the Pebble (Time) do offer thousands of apps and watch faces to customize your watch to your needs.

Beside supporting colours, the Pebble Time has a microphone for voice input thru text recognition. At the time of writing this post, apps supporting voice input are rare. If you're on Android, you will be able to reply to the notifications received from Twitter, Facebook of an SMS. This is a really neat feature not available for Apple users. On iOS, all you can do is dismiss the received notification.

As I wanted to explore the possibilities of my Pebble Time with my iPhone, I've discovered Turquoise, a Twitter client app that lets you reply to private messages, mentions. Shake your wrist and post publicly. Turquoise is pushing the boundaries of the Pebble Time by providing a new way to use the device. Most apps will let you view informations, schedule new reminders or acknowledge something. For the first time, we have an app that is not related to time but to communication. A few others have tried to provide such a feature but in my opinion, Turquoise nailed it perfectly on the Pebble Time.